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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This week S&S had a tech seminar in D.C.
at the dealers. I spoke with Kent Webb about the thick hammers. My last two sets
were not usable without reducing the thickness. Kent said he was unaware of any
change in size. He said that S&S restores 300 pianos a year and uses the
same hammers we are getting with no problems. Is he not aware, or is he simply
... ... whatever? Can we not get hammers sliced at the thickness we want
them, and avoid the business of sawing or sanding them to the proper
size?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carlos Ralon, RPT Washington D.C.
Chapter</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=erwinspiano@aol.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:30
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> New Steinway Hamers was---hammer
thickness trimming jig</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size=3><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size=3> <B><FONT size=2>The newer
Steinway hammers of the past year have been just too wide & if not reduced
will hit the adjacent unison string when una corde is applied. & Bills jig
works just fine for this. I also remove a good deal of felt, before the
tapering to get the diamond shape that I find works well. Out of the box they
look huge, like a fighter who may not make the weight at the weigh in, but
with the right treatment it's no trouble. As an aside The two sets I've worked
with recently had very nice Bacon felt & were not juiced at the factory
& were easily prepped to weight. They await final voicing when I get back
from rainy Victoria.<BR> <BR> Dale</FONT></B><BR></FONT><BR>
<DIV id=AOLMsgPart_0_067cf182-4c47-45da-9959-632c03c24d07
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)">At
11:48 -0400 24/8/08, Greg Newell wrote: <BR> <BR>>...I have the
task of thickness trimming on some prehung hammers >from S&S. The
hammers came too thick for the vintage grand I’m >working on as there is
not sufficient clearance to allow reliable >individual hammer
movement. <BR>>Ordinarily I would do this before hanging hammers but
since these are <BR>>pre-hung …. well I’m a bit
stuck. <BR> <BR>You've bought the wrong hammers, which are most
likely to be too heavy even if you find a way of planing them down to 10.5 or
11 mm wide. This would mean you'd end up with too heavy an action or too
sluggish an action owing to the lead you add to compensate for the over-heavy
hammers. Can't you send them back and get the proper lighter hammers for the
early models? <BR> <BR>JD <BR></DIV><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_0_067cf182-4c47-45da-9959-632c03c24d07 -->
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